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The following highlights come from a long-read profile of Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow, a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. The article appears in the February issue of San Francisco magazine.

Sunday on CNN during the opening of a segment featuring Breitbart senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak on “Reliable Sources,” the network misidentified former Breitbart News report Julia Hahn, who last week it was announced took a job at the Trump White

The mainstream media’s reaction to Breitbart News’ expanded influence has run the gamut from bewildered hostility to turgid hysteria, and not much in between.

David Brock, the founder of Media Matters, plans to charge people to use a new “Twitter-like” website, with only progressives allowed to participate.

Jonathan Swan announces in Axios that Breitbart News is hiring a new editor and two reporters, grabbing talent from RealClearPolitics and The Hill.

The concept of illegal immigration into the United States does not exist, according to a new piece by men’s magazine GQ.

A German journalist is asking for money from other left wingers to found a new website that he claims will counter the growing popularity of Breitbart News in Germany ahead of the federal election later this year.

Shelley Hepworth of the Columbia Journalism Review conducted a Q&A with “respected” veteran Wall Street Journal reporter John Carney, who was recently hired by Breitbart News to oversee a new financial vertical with a focus on “economic nationalism and populism.”

The New York Times’ Sydney Ember reports that Breitbart News hopes to “broaden its audience” with a new financial section led by recently hired veteran Wall Street Journal reporter John Carney.

An anonymous group of left-wing Twitter trolls has convinced the New York State Department of Health to withdraw ads promoting colorectal cancer screening from Breitbart News.

Joshua Green of Bloomberg writes that Breitbart News has hired John Carney, a veteran finance journalist, to run a news vertical on the economy.

Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United Sates, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com.

Chicago Police Department officials will not yet confirm if an alleged kidnapping and video-recorded physical attack of a young white man with special needs will be prosecuted as a “hate crime.”

The affluent region of Boulder, Colorado has declared itself a “sanctuary city,” to shield illegal immigrants from federal agents ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Washington Post writer Erik Wemple has updated his fake news story to indicate that Breitbart News was not the source of a false food stamps fraud report made on-air by Fox and Friends co-host Abby Huntsman.

In another example of “fake news,” several left-wing journalists have spread unconfirmed speculation from a government agency to attack Breitbart, and — surprising no one — they were 100% wrong.

Asked for his opinion of Breitbart News, acclaimed journalist Glenn Greenwald praised the news site’s editorial integrity and said the site was “very impressive in terms of the impact they’ve been able to have.

A man who claimed to have been the victim of a racist hate crime actually hoaxed the incident, writing “n*gger lovers” on his garage door.

The New York Times’ Jeremy W. Peters is rather salty that conservatives immediately saw the “fake news” panic’s endgame and turned the tables on establishment media.

Sydney Ember writes in the New York Times about changes coming to the White House Press Room, including greater participation of “online media outlets” like Breitbart News.

If you read through the world of left-wing clickbait Thursday afternoon, you may have seen a shocking story about a Jewish family chased out of town by anti-Semitic Breitbart readers because our site blamed them for shutting down a school’s Christmas play. Scary stuff — except that version of the story is 100% fake news.

Rachel Bade reports in Politico that Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill “are loath to say anything remotely critical” of President-elect Donald Trump or his agenda for fear of the coverage such actions will receive from Breitbart News.

Clio Chang and Alex Shephard write in The New Republic about the organizational shake-up and shift in focus at the leftwing media watchdog Media Matters for America. The brainchild of its Clinton ally founder David Brock, Media Matters now seeks to reinvent itself in a post-Clinton world. Brock has recently stated that he hopes to transform his social media platform Shareblue into a “Breitbart of the left.” But Clinton’s electoral loss offers a unique challenge for Media Matters because, as Chang and Shephard report, “[t]he organization had long ceased to be a mere watchdog, having positioned itself at the center of a group of public relations and advocacy outfits whose mission was to help put Clinton in the White House.”

Actor-comedian Michael Ian Black shared a link to a fake news website in an attempt to criticize Breitbart News as “Jew-bashers” in a post on his social media account on Saturday.

Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Breitbart reporter at this daily briefings always “is respectful of that process and ask tough questions.” Earnest said, “You raised Breitbart as an example. It is not

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, discussed the Freedom of Information Act suit filed by VICE News demanding copies of the FBI’s communications between him and Breitbart News.

Adweek reports that Kellogg’s decision to pull its advertising from Breitbart News inflicted massive, longterm damage to the cereal company’s brand online.

The Wall Street Journal concludes that Kellogg’s politically-driven decision to pick a food fight with Breitbart has bruised its brand.

Kelly Riddell writes in the Washington Times that “since ‘fake news’ is all the rage within the mainstream media,” she has comprises a Top 10 list of news stories reported on by the mainstream media “that turned out to be, well, fake.” Number 9 on the list is the media’s false reporting that Steve Bannon, former Breitbart Executive Chairman and current chief strategist to Donald Trump, is a “white supremacist.”

In his latest op-ed, World Net Daily founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah offers a generous endorsement of Breitbart’s #DumpKelloggs boycott, declaring that his website, in solidarity with Breitbart, will no longer accept advertising from Kellogg’s.

Charlie Warzel and Lam Thuy Vo report in Buzzfeed on a study they conducted to determine President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite news sites by analyzing the articles he tweeted. They discovered that Breitbart News is by far his favorite news source, as can be seen in the above graph Buzzfeed created showing all of the websites Trump has tweeted as spheres with their size corresponding to the frequency of his tweets.

Jack Marshall and Suzanne Vranica report in the Wall Street Journal on the efforts of leftwing organizers to get companies to blacklist Breitbart News from automated ad placement technologies and what impact this could have on the future of Internet advertising. As Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow makes clear, these efforts have had “little to no impact” on Breitbart.

If you’re not a regular reader of Breitbart News, you may be a little confused by our #DumpKelloggs campaign and the stories about Kellogg’s that may have hit your news feed recently.

Politico’s Hadas Gold reports that the far-leftwing Media Matters organization has pivoted its attack focus away from its old cable news nemesis Fox News and onto Breitbart News instead, as the left now views Breitbart as the greater emerging threat.

Saturday on NBC’s “Nightly News,” London-based network correspondent Matt Bradley featured Breitbart News and it’s growth abroad. The segment featured appearances by Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow discussing the expansion with France’s Marion Maréchal-Le Pen and Britain’s Tommy Robinson calling for

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook accused Breitbart News Network of “peddling” false news. Mook said, “I think there’s a lot of things we need to examine coming out of this. You